Domain name ‘superstar’ to take the helm at Top Level

July 25, 2011

From: Independent.co.uk 18, July 2011

The former chairman of Icann, the governing body of internet domain names, is to join a small London-listed online company which hopes to profit from the next generation of “dot-brand” names.

Top Level Domain Holdings, which is listed on the Alternative Investment Market, will today announce Peter Dengate Thrush as its executive chairman.

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Peter Dengate Thrush appointed as Executive Chairman of TLDH

July 17, 2011

The Directors of Top Level Domain Holdings Limited (AIM: TLDH.L), the only publicly traded company focused exclusively on acquiring and operating new generic top-level domains (“gTLD”), are delighted to announce that Mr Peter Dengate Thrush has been appointed Executive Chairman of the Company with immediate effect. Mr Dengate Thrush was until recently the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”), where in June 2011 he led the ICANN Board to approve the programme to create new gTLDs. (more…)